Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #31099 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Samsung Camera
• Model: L310WBK
• Released on: 2008-08-19

Manufacturer's Description
L310W - Widen your horizons.
With 13.6 megapixels, 28mm wide angle lens and a host of quality-driven features, the new L310W delivers great pictures every time.

		28mm Wide Schneider Kreuznach Lens Featuring the world famous Schneider lens with 28mm wide angle, capturing a much wider image - great for taking close up group shots and landscapes.
		Dual Image Stabilisation Dual Image Stabilisation works by integrating the best sensor shift mechanisms of Optical Image Stabilisation with the sophisticated algorithms of Digital Image Stabilisation, to take ultra clear images without blur.
		Face Detection Each time you click, your camera automatically recognises if there is a face in the shot. It then optimises the focus and brightness of up to nine faces for stunning, natural looking portraits.
		Red-Eye Fix Your camera uses a special algorithm to automatically detect and eliminate red-eye from your shot. You just get the perfect, natural portrait. You can even choose to remove red-eye after you have taken the shot.
		Blink Detection The Blink Detection function detects when a subjects eyes are closed; this feature triggers the camera to automatically take three shots in order to capture the person's eyes open.
		Beauty Shot The Beauty Shot function uses face detection technology to retouch the facial skin to appear brighter and to give the impression of a smoother skin tone. This can be done either while shooting or during playback.
		Smile Detection Smile Detection ensures that no happy moments are missed by taking the shot automatically when smiles are detected.
		Scene Mode Choose from various scene modes to automatically adjust your camera settings, such as exposure, colour and contrast. These can include; Portrait, Children, Night scene, Backlight, Landscape, Sunset, Dawn, Firework, Snow, Close up, Self, Cafe, Food and Text.
		Auto Contrast Balance The new Auto Contrast Balance automatically compensates the brightness of objects in challenging light environments (i.e. backlight conditions) to ensure a perfectly exposed image.
		Photo Help Guide If a problem is encountered during shooting, troubleshooting instructions are provided so that image correction can be easily performed by anybody. Step-by-step instructions with simple illustration on use of the camera are provided through the LCD for users' convenience.
		Li-on Battery Charge the battery inside the camera from a standard electrical socket or alternatively straight from a USB port connected to your computer. No need for additional charger and greater user flexibility.
		Recycle Bin The Recycle Bin Function allows you to retrieve images if you've accidently deleted them.
		Function Description Helping you see clearly, the Function Description gives you quick, clear descriptions of each icon and function on the camera. So whether you're a novice or an advanced user, the Function Description will ensure that you'll make the most of the camera's amazing capabilities without leaving you in the dark.

Customer Reviews

Great in low light
I've been looking for this combination of features at a good price for ages: the wide angle lens and dual optical image stabilisation means this camera is great at getting images in low light, and with 13 megapixels there's masses of scope to crop images and still have a hi-res photo at the end of it. The ability to shoot video at 800x592 is a bonus - it's not quite hi-definition but it's not far off and you can zoom while shooting too which some cameras can't. The only down side is that there's no SD card in the box so you'll need to order one.

Brilliant Camera, outstanding value for money
This camera is excellent value and very easy to use. The quality is well up to Samsung's usual standards, yet advances in miniaturisation have made it almost too small. The camera can take SD cards, and I found an 8 gb card for £19 which meant that in -practice I can take pictures without having to worry about running out of space. The 13.6 mp highest resoution is more than most people will need, however it is very useful if you subsequently want to zoom in on a section of a picture or if you want to make large prints of the pictures. Like most digital cameras, it isn't brilliant at taking shots in limited light, because its automatic response is to open the shutter for longer, rather than making the aperture larger. This has the effect of blurring any night pictures taken without a tripod. Even though there is an image stabilisation facility, this is not that effective. The optical zoom is good, but uses a lot of battery. Thankfully, if you keep this camera fully charged, the battery has quite a long life. The digital zoom is a little pointless as any zooming of this type loses resolution and could be done in post-production. The movie function works really well, to the extent that the quality is good enough for web upload, with a basic sound recording facility. The charger is clever because the camera can be plugged into a USB port for both charging and data upload purposes, then the same USB connector will attach the camera to the mains transformer. The device comes with a television output, which could be useful for a modern-day slide show. The camera comes without a case, but a small one can be bought reasonaably cheaply from a supermarket. This represents surprising value for money, and out-performs cameras costing twice its price.

A Bargain
I own bigger, more expensive cameras for doing "serious" photography, mostly landscape, but I wanted something that I could stick in a pocket to carry around all the time and didn't cost a fortune. This ticked most of the boxes, under £100, with the 28mm wide angle zoom, large screen, anti-shake and even a manual exposure setting (of sorts). Works great as a point and shoot, but if you want to get creative there's plenty of scope. Things like white balance, picture size and exposure comp. are all there with the one button (Fn). 13MP is probably over the top for a camera like this (my DSLR "only" has 12!) and the picture quality does suffer because of it, but hey, I'm still impressed. At low ISO it's very good and even higher up I've seen a lot worse. As someone already pointed out, It's one thing looking 100% on a monitor, but run a few off on any modern A4 printer and you'll be very pleased with the results. Thing is, I look at the DSLR now, with the bag and all the other stuff that goes with it and I'm tempted just to grab the wee Samsung! I know I'll still come back with some decent photos.